NETWORK APPLICATION: A Network in Surface Science Applications in Laboratory Astrophysics

网络应用：实验室天体物理中表面科学应用的网络

• 批准号: GR/T05004/02
• 负责人: Martin McCoustra
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Heriot-Watt University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=GR%2FT05004%2F02
• 关键词: NETWORK; APPLICATION; Network; Surface; Science

A new, UK-based network is proposed, which will bring together scientists from a range of disciplines with a common interest in understanding the interaction of the gaseous interstellar medium with the surfaces of dust grains. Only relatively recently have astronomers realised the importance of this gas-grain interaction in the chemical evolution of the interstellar medium. Surface scientists, both experimental and theoretical, are now investigating many aspects of this interaction; the formation of hydrogen and other molecules from atoms, the behaviour of the icy mantles that coat the grains and how these mantles are processed to yield complex, pre-biotic molecules by light, electrons and ions. It will be the role of the network to encourage communication between scientists from different communities to ensure that a proper and complete understanding of these complex interactions is forthcoming. To achieve this aim a combination of research meetings and training workshops will be used to enlighten the membership to the range of issues it must address and to give the membership the necessary background understanding. The research meetings will be held annually, while we envisage workshops as important only in the initial stages of the network existence to break down the barriers to understanding between the communities. The initial membership of the network will be closely balanced between communities comprising the network. As the network develops, new members from both communities will be added to ensure a continued balance.

提出了一个基于英国的新网络，该网络将汇集来自各个学科的科学家，他们对了解气态星际介质与尘埃颗粒表面的相互作用有共同的兴趣。直到最近，天文学家才意识到这种气体-颗粒相互作用在星际介质化学演化中的重要性。表面科学家，无论是实验科学家还是理论科学家，现在正在研究这种相互作用的许多方面。原子形成氢和其他分子、覆盖谷物的冰幔的行为以及这些幔如何通过光、电子和离子处理产生复杂的生命前分子。该网络的作用是鼓励来自不同社区的科学家之间的交流，以确保对这些复杂的相互作用有正确和完整的理解。为了实现这一目标，将结合研究会议和培训研讨会来启发会员必须解决的一系列问题，并让会员有必要的背景了解。研究会议将每年举行一次，而我们预计研讨会仅在网络存在的初始阶段才重要，以打破社区之间理解的障碍。网络的初始成员将在组成网络的社区之间保持密切平衡。随着网络的发展，来自两个社区的新成员将被添加以确保持续的平衡。